Summary

Seven years into an isolated retirement after the Battle of New York, Steve has carved out a place for himself in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. He has a best friend (his dog, Lady), a frenemy (a local black bear named Rufus), and a cabin in the middle of the woods, an hour's drive from the nearest town. As November comes to a close, he heads into town to pick up supplies and ends up with a stowaway.

Bucky hasn't had much luck over the past seven years. Disaster caused his family to move from New York to Indiana, and his life has steadily fallen apart ever since. After one too many heartbreaks, he decides to hitch his way back to the last place he remembers being happy: Brooklyn. He's in the homestretch when he finds himself stranded in a half-empty tourist town in the Catskills and decides to take a chance crawling into the back of someone's truck.

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AKA the "Lumberjack Steve/Twink Bucky" fic of our hearts. Bucky spends so much time thirsty as hell.

Summary

“Please stop asking gay couples how they met,” Clint said, tired and annoyed. “Yes, Sharon, I met him on Grindr. I sucked his dick. Then I ghosted him for two months and then he moved in with me. God.”

Sharon gave him a wide-eyed look of disbelief, mouth open as she clearly scrambled for something to say, and then Wanda started laughing. Pepper was quick to follow, her laugh throaty and genuinely amused, and Clint was grateful for both of them.

“My goodness,” Wanda said, eyes sparkling with mirth. “That’s a story to tell the grandchildren. Another round, I think, so that we can toast to Clint’s good fortune.”

Or, the one where Clint and Bucky are Grindr not-boyfriends, Natasha and Steve keep trying to set them up, and there are so many shenanigans.

Summary

Bucky Barnes always assumed he'd live a fairly normal life. He's a history teacher after all, a normal guy from Brooklyn with a passion for the arts and humanities, who wants to share that passion with a new generation. A chance encounter with Steve Rogers uproots that normal life, however, and sends Bucky on a very different path than the one he'd always imagined.

Things tend to get complicated when you date Steve Rogers, living legend, Actual Hero; after spending some time in Hydra captivity, Bucky's faced with a long road to recovery. With the support of his loving boyfriend and the friends he's made in the Avengers, however, Bucky might come to realize that maybe, just maybe, he was made to be a hero, too.

Summary

Bucky is used to his daughter bursting into tears in the middle of department stores. What he isn't used to is someone braving the wails and actually being able to stop Becca's tantrum in its tracks. Oh, and he's also not used to that someone being Captain America.

AKA, how Steve Rogers calms a screaming kid in Target and falls in love with two more Barneses than he had bargained for.

Summary

When you wake up, SHIELD pulls out all the stops to convince you to stay and work for them. But they don’t even care enough about you to get their lies straight. If Bucky were here, he’d tell you to get the hell out and go back home. But Bucky’s dead and you don’t have a home anymore. Still, you’ve always been a disagreeable punk, too stubborn to back down from a challenge. Walking away from Captain America may be the biggest challenge you’ve ever faced, but you’re up to it.